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Mir, Javaid Gillani Mail in details of your achievement and join the elite GolfPlus Ace Club: [email protected] Feature THE SWADHISHTHANA CHAKRA THE ABODE OF THE SELF RANKED AMONGST THE FIFTY MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN INDIA, SADHGURU IS A YOGI, MYSTIC, VISIONARY AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SADHGURU HAS BEEN CONFERRED THE PADMA VIBHUSHAN BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN 2017, THE HIGHEST ANNUAL CIVILIAN AWARD, ACCORDED FOR EXCEPTIONAL AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE - SADHGURU ISHA FOUNDATION Sadhguru: Swadhishthana means “abode of the If one has used the Muladhara or the amrita to to activate your Muladhara and Swadhishthana by self.” When one masters the Muladhara, it can either heighten one’s perception, then the Swadhishthana yourself, so that the body ¿ xes itself. If Muladhara lead to a very stable body, or to a certain drunkenness also functions in this way and further enhances that and Swadhishthana are stabilized, health will happen of experience, or to heightened levels of perception. possibility. by itself, from within, because they are at the very If one has used the mastery over the Muladhara for Swadhishthana & Systems of Health basis of the body. stability alone, then the Swadhishthana becomes a The schools of Muladhara and Swadhishthana Of all the things that we can do in the yogic system, strong abode of regeneration and pleasure. created elaborate systems of medicine and ways of working with the Swadhishthana is among the most becoming healthy. This happened because of the If one has used Muladhara for drunkenness, then complex and beautiful. There have been many demands of the marketplace. When they met a yogi, the Swadhishthana becomes an abode of a sense of cases where a combination of Swadhishthana and people only asked things like, “Can you cure my bodilessness – not in terms of becoming like thin air, Muladhara has produced beautiful results for people. disease? Can you make me young again? Can you but as an experience of a little distance from the body. Many have been rejuvenated from almost deathlike bring my grandmother back to life?” Very few people If you take an orange, there is sweetness in the fruit situations and become vibrantly alive. that is not there in the peel; they are one inside the asked, “Can you take me beyond my limitations?” Our Rejuvenation Center is doing this to some other, but there is a little distance. Likewise, when Yoga got crafted as per people’s demands. Of extent. This can be done through various types there is sweetness of the self, the body will sit a little course, in today’s world, people feel this is perfectly of therapies, using Siddha and Ayurveda oils and loosely on it. This will give some freedom from legitimate and the best thing about yoga. But using medicines, herbs, substances, and metals. It is a physical drives that human beings tend to have. the yogic system only to attend to one’s health is the complex process. But a better way to do it would be lowest way of using it. But that is considered the 10 GolfPlus SEPTEMBER 2020 Feature highest today. Only if there are health bene¿ ts, they ever they say, it doesn’t seem to be enough now. baby. But only if all the other six dimensions in your think it’s for real. There is nothing wrong in using technology for our system are on, can you deliver a god. And only if all For the Muladhara, you can use earth and herbs, wellbeing. The problem arises when, empowered by the other six are equally active can you live on and because herbs are an outcome of the earth. For the technology, we believe we have become superhuman. maintain potency after delivering a god. Swadhishthana, mostly ¿ re and akash are used. By If you think you are big because of a gadget, when Consecrating Human Beings using these elements and substances, one can acquire the battery drains and there’s no place to recharge, Delivering a divine entity, or in other words a certain capability so that things from outside do not suddenly, without your smartphone, you will look consecration, can happen in many ways. Of all the touch you. There have been fantastic stories in this dumb. material in the world, the easiest to consecrate is the context. Swadhishthana Sadhana Brings Freedom human body. Unfortunately, the human mind is also Neem Karoli Baba & Ram Dass When energies are dominant in the Swadhishthana, what turns around tomorrow morning most easily When the young American man who is today one becomes far more alert to life around. and does something else. referred to as Ram Dass came to Neem Karoli Baba Swadhishthana sadhana gives you a certain freedom. If someone has brought their mind to a state of in the sixties, the American youth believed LSD was The freedom movement in this country was referred unquestioned focus towards something, then the ultimate solution in life. Ram Dass came to Neem to as Swatantra. Swa-tantra means “technology of the consecrating that body to function like a divine Karoli Baba with a supply of LSD. self” – a way to become free. The biggest bondage entity becomes a possibility. But most people in Neem Karoli Baba was sitting there, blissed out by is in the way we are reproduced, and the biggest today’s world are not able to maintain that kind of himself. Ram Dass said that he had something else. urge is that of reproduction. It binds people in body, focus. Every other day, they start questioning if they Neem Karoli Baba asked what it is. Ram Dass gave mind, and emotion. Swadhishthana and swatantra are are doing the right thing in life – whether it is their him a handful of LSD pills. Neem Karoli Baba put connected. Swatantra is a way to release the self from marriage, brahmacharya, or spirituality in general. them all in his mouth. This dosage could have killed these kinds of troubles and compulsions. The worst calamity that has happened to modern a man, but he went about his activity as usual, and Procreation or Creation of Gods? society is that they cannot stay focused on anything. nothing happened to him. The entire culture has become about “What will I There have been many beings who have used get?” Once “What will I get?” is the main criteria, Ram Dass was impressed, and either out of his the Swadhishthana for speci¿ c goals. If your the scavenging mind will keep on moving from one own receptivity, or because of the drug, or because Swadhishthana is established at the lowest level, it thing to the other. of Neem Karoli Baba’s compassion, certain things is purely reproductive. At the highest level, you can happened to him. Later on, he went back to the United create a god if you wish. The technology of god- Another dimension of the Swadhishthana is that you States and dedicated his life to somehow bring this making is based on having absolute control over the can take it above its natural compulsions. Whatever is into people’s lives, or at least to open up the Western Swadhishthana. referred to as sexuality is essentially nature instigating mind to the possibility that there is something beyond you to reproduce. In modern societies, people treat it The tantra of making the self free is about creating what they had imagined. as if it was a purpose by itself. People are using it to a certain À exibility of your life energies, in such Plant Life & Mastery of Swadhishthana bind themselves to each other.